Bronze Canaanite Figurines Unearthed in Israel The Canaanite god of Baal was a 3,300-year-old bronze figurine; a bronze calf statue, two seals, and Canaanite and Philistine pottery have been unearthed by a team led by Gil Davis of Macquarie University and Yossi Garfinkel of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem at the site of Khirbet el-Rai, …

600-Year-Old Buddha Statue Discovered In China As Reservoir Water Level Drops Lower water levels in a village in eastern China led to a shocking discovery the other day. What was discovered was an approximately 600-year-old Buddha statue almost perfectly preserved. The statue was discovered at Hongmen Reservoir in the Nancheng county of Jiangsu Province. It …

Check out this striking 25,000-year-old hut built out of mammoth bones Dr. Alexander J.E. Pryor, an archeological postdoctoral researcher at Southampton University, has recently published a research paper from Cambridge University Press. The members of his team claiming they have found the oldest man-made structure in Russia about three hundred miles from Moscow. No one …

Israel Archaeologists unearth 1,200-year-old mosque In an archeological dig in the mainly Bedouin town of Rahat, north of Beersheba remains of a 1200-year-old rural mosque, one of the oldest in the world was discovered. “The Middle East and the world in general and, above all, in the northern part of Beersheba, where a similar building …

Statue Fragments Found Near Cambodia’s Bayon Temple SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA— The large statue fragments have been recovered from a canal near the Gate of the ᴅᴇᴀᴅ at Angkor Thom by members of Cambodia’s Department of Monuments and Preventive Archaeology, the heritage police, and agents from the Apsara Authority. “The god statue found by the working …

Ritual Site Dedicated to Mesopotamian War God Discovered in Iraq At the site of Girsu (also known as Tello) in Iraq, archeologists recently uncovered a 5,000-year-old cultic region that hosted fiery feasts, animal sacrifices and ritual processions dedicated to Ningirsu, a Mesopotamian warrior-god. Archeologists excavated over 300 broken ceremonial ceramic cups, bowls, pots, and spouted …

Ancient City found atop huge Rock in Srilanka Sigiriya (The Lion Mountain) is often considered to be the eighth wonders of the world and an ancient stone fortress used by a king of Sri Lanka as a site to build his palace and hide from attacks by his Enemy brother. Located in Sri Lanka’s central …

3000-year-old Nimrud lens could rewrite the history of science The lens of Nimrud is a rock crystal object, 3000 years old, which Sir John Layard found in 1850 at the ᴀssyrian Nimrud Palace in modern Iraq. Since its discovery over a century ago, scientists and archaeologists have been discussing how the lens has been used …

Mount Kailash in Tibet is actually an ancient manmade pyramid that is surrounded by smaller pyramids and is linked to pyramids in Giza and Teotihuacan. Words do no justice to the untouched beauty of this far corner of the earth. A vastly mysterious and sacred place. Embraced and protected by miles of immovable mountains. Monasteries …